It wasn’t that Pei Qian was deliberately being modest; mainly, he couldn’t write a proper world-building concept either.

Not just the world-building, but for some detailed designs, Pei Qian also hadn’t made any rigid requirements.

Once the design draft was written, Pei Qian would make some minor adjustments, and that would be fine.

Ma Yiqun listened very attentively.

This was his first time participating in a new project’s development from scratch since becoming responsible for story design, and this game sounded like it had very high requirements for its storyline, full of challenges.

He absolutely couldn’t disappoint Mr. Pei!

With the general direction established and Mr. Pei’s requirements clearly explained, everyone began to leave.

Pei Qian asked Ma Yiqun to stay behind.

Ma Yiqun couldn’t help feeling excited.

Mr. Pei keeping me behind alone obviously means he wants to discuss story-related issues with me!

This is great! Since joining Tenda, I’ve been trying hard every day to understand Mr. Pei’s intentions. This face-to-face exchange with Mr. Pei will be tremendously beneficial.

I wonder how Mr. Pei will design the world-building for “Turning Back is Salvation”? Even just one hint would be good…

Ma Yiqun couldn’t help imagining all sorts of possibilities.

Pei Qian looked at Ma Yiqun with a smile: “Starting tomorrow, you will no longer be a member of Tenda Games.”

Ma Yiqun was stunned.

What did that mean?

Is my work capability inadequate, and am I being asked to resign?

That can’t be right. Lü Mingliang and other colleagues have all given me good evaluations. Where did I go wrong to make Mr. Pei dissatisfied?

Is it because the storylines I wrote before weren’t good enough? Did I disappoint Mr. Pei? That doesn’t make sense. The players’ reactions were quite positive, weren’t they?

Pei Qian continued with a smile: “I have a more important task for you. Tenda is going to open an online novel website. I know online novels have always been your hobby and dream, so you’ll be the person in charge of this website.”

Ma Yiqun was even more stunned. His eyes slowly widened, filled with bewilderment.

Happiness came too suddenly, leaving him completely unable to react!

Just moments ago, he thought he was about to be fired, which had terrified him.

Now he understood—it wasn’t dismissal but a reassignment.

From games to web novels!

Ma Yiqun felt somewhat dazed.

He never imagined… that he would intersect with web novels again.

He had once believed he possessed exceptional talent in writing. After all, his family had a scholarly tradition, and he grew up in that environment, developing very good writing skills.

During university, he began trying his hand at writing books and gained quite a few genuine fans who loved his work.

Ma Yiqun enjoyed interacting with readers and loved the feeling of having his work appreciated and recognized by others.

However, his experiences after graduating from university had hit him hard. He had struggled from having no readers to achieving decent statistics, but in the end, none of his books had managed to get over a hundred first-day subscriptions, nearly starving him.

So he had reluctantly abandoned his account on Infinite Chinese Web, found a job at Shangyang Games to get by, and began working as a story planner.

Until now, it had been more than a year since he’d touched web novels again.

Although he still followed popular works, he had sealed his pen for a long time.

Ma Yiqun’s voice trembled slightly: “I’ll be in charge? What’s the current status of this company?”

Pei Qian smiled: “It’s still being assembled, but don’t worry. Assistant Xin will arrange the financial and administrative staff. You just need to be responsible for the daily operation of the website.”

“The workplace is upstairs, and as for personnel… we’ve initially recruited some new graduates with arts majors from Handong University. Considering that in the web novel industry, relevant experience doesn’t matter, you can use these people as you see fit, arrange whatever work you can for them.”

Everything Pei Qian said was the truth. These people were truly newcomers; Pei Qian didn’t even know if they had read web novels before.

But Ma Yiqun didn’t see it that way.

Why had Mr. Pei suddenly decided to establish a web novel website?

It wasn’t just to join the trend—there must be a deeper meaning!

So far, Tenda’s development has been multi-faceted. Whether it was Fei Huang Studio or Slackin’ Internet Café, they all seemed unrelated on the surface, but formed a grand strategic plan!

If Fei Huang Studio was developing toward the film and television industry and Slackin’ Internet Café was advancing into physical businesses, then this web novel website…

It was most likely an important step in intellectual property deployment!

As long as they could incubate a good IP, Fei Huang Studio could adapt it for film and television, while Tenda Games could develop games around this IP. In the future, such a highly forward-looking arrangement would be tremendously significant!

Although the website was just getting started, with Mr. Pei’s sharp strategic vision and Tenda’s strong financial backing behind it…

If he messed this up, Ma Yiqun felt he might as well bring his head on a platter!

Thinking about how Mr. Pei had unhesitatingly entrusted such an important component of his strategic plan to him, Ma Yiqun felt touched.

Yet alongside his gratitude, he also doubted himself.

“Mr. Pei, you know my situation. I’m afraid I’m not cut out for this.”

“I couldn’t even write good novels myself, yet I have to guide others. I’m afraid I’ll only lead them down the wrong path… The influence would be too great. I’m a bit…”

Pei Qian wore a smile.

Lead them down the wrong path?

That’s exactly right! Why else did you think I made you the person in charge?

Pei Qian knew that once this website launched, they couldn’t just do nothing. They would have to collect manuscripts from unsuccessful writers and sign authors who just showed up for the daily attendance bonus—these were all necessary actions.

Pei Qian was very concerned that, with his strangely lucky attributes, what if a web novel genius emerged from among them? What if a single book broke through the site’s subscription ceiling, causing the website to become popular as well? Wouldn’t that be a disaster?

Based on experience, this possibility couldn’t be ignored.

For Pei Qian, Ma Yiqun was an excellent insurance policy.

The fact that he had repeatedly failed showed that he had serious misconceptions about the objective rules of web novels, completely going against the tastes of mainstream readers today, and failing even to satisfy some niche readers.

As for Pei Qian’s batch of senior schoolmates, even if some had read web novels, they probably had no understanding of the internal creative principles.

If there had been any promising talents among them, they would have become full-time web novelists long ago. How could they still be available now?

Ma Yiqun’s understanding had major flaws, yet he would be teaching these people to be editors, responsible for manuscript review, recommendations, and a series of other work—that would certainly be even more unreliable!

When the manuscripts they received were subpar and the resident authors were all unsuccessful writers just showing up for attendance bonuses, readers wouldn’t be able to find good books on the website, creating a vicious cycle…

Yes, that would be stable.

Of course, thinking about it this way seemed a bit too extreme.

How could success come so easily?

If they were to seriously run a web novel website, even if Pei Qian carefully recruited industry editors and spent money to poach famous authors, the result would most likely still be a failure.

The probability of making money in this industry was very low.

Since the outcome couldn’t be changed, why not just make casual arrangements and let Ma Yiqun fulfill his dream?

What was money? Helping employees achieve their dreams—that was Mr. Pei’s lifelong pursuit!